Document Dump

The story surrounding the endless legal saga of the Interior Department's management of Indian trust funds just keeps getting stranger and stranger. The latest twist: The National Archives discovered two sets of Bureau of Indian Affairs records dating to the 1950s dumped in a trash bin and a wastebasket. Now an Archives official says the document dumps "may be intentional acts aimed at unlawfully removing or disposing of permanent records from the Interior Department," and the Archives inspector general has launched an investigation. Interior officials insist they had nothing to do with it.